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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
— James Russell Lowell
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
— Thiruvalluvar
She tasted like a Chateau Margaux, perfectly rounded, slightly plumy with an aftertaste of ripe berries.
— Simon Okill
From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.
— J.K. Rowling
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
— William Wordsworth
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.[Give me the splendid silent sun] — Walt Whitman
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
— William Shakespeare
A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you. — Phyllis McGinley
I'm dancing in my own corpse. Over dramatic and ripe with error.
— Philip LoPresti
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
— Virginia Woolf
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
— Charles Bukowski
Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground.
— Walter Isaacson
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
— David Rubenstein
You have to wait for a fruit to ripe before you harvest.You must also learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions. — Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
— Publilius Syrus
Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.
— William Shakespeare
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
— Matthew Arnold
Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.
— Kurt Von Schleicher
And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.
— DeForest Soaries
Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren
— George R R Martin
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.
— Rupert Thomson
Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe
— Bel Kaufman
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
— Huey Lewis
Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup.
— Wylie Dufresne
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will take the sun in my mouthand leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness — E. E. Cummings
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.
— George Herbert
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
— Stephen Colbert
Fresh, sweet honeysuckle. Ripe and rich and ready to be fuckedPLUCKED, he corrected himself, ready to be plucked. — Christine Warren
Truth is fruit on a tree; though ripe, one must still reach for it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every tree
and into my opened heart
a little drop ran down. — Edith Sodergran
i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air
— E. E. Cummings
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
— Anita Baker
When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
oh love, doesn't the fact that the world is so big,laid out like ripe fruit
make you want to stay? — Andrew McMillan
To find perfectly ripe fruit, catch it.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.
— Gianfranco Fini
Strike the hue. Westward, burning. Pages turning. Indiana. Ripe banana. Happiness approaches. Serpents and roaches.
— Rick Riordan
Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else
— Fela Durotoye
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.
— John Townsend Trowbridge
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
— Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
The birthing wolf,Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
Food to feed the universe. — Roman Payne
A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe.
— Paulo Coelho
As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.
— Geraldine Brooks
Australia smelt of apples. Ripe, green, crisp apples. A smell so sharp and sweet it made my teeth tingle.
— Andrea Levy
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.
— Jody Watley
they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
God will give the strength of ripe manhood - with the burden allotted to full-grown shoulders.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
— Angelina Jolie
The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
— Donald McGannon
Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.
— William Allingham
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
— Andrea Riseborough
Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.
— Pat Conroy
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
— Virginia Woolf
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!
— Michael Leunig
The evening's rain had woken a hundred sleeping smells and made them ripe and strong again
— George R R Martin
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
— George Herbert
The human fruit is always ripe for peeling.
— Haruki Murakami
Guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
— Robin Morgan
I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so ... the apple.
— Megan Chance
Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.
— Jim Carrey
What wondrous life in this I leadRipe apples drop about my head — Andrew Marvell